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Birmingham: Household Support Fund & Crisis and Resilience Fund

What Birmingham’s local crisis scheme covers, how to apply, and whether it was open when we checked.

Written by the benefitmoney.co.uk editorial team · Last reviewed 14 September 2026

Birmingham City Council lists its local crisis help under the name Crisis and Resilience Fund 2026 to 2027. When we ran our automated check on 10 September 2026 the council’s page did not load for us, so we have not reproduced its details here — use the official link below for the current information.

What Birmingham’s scheme covers

Government allocation: £28,665,861 for 2026-27

Council site refused our automated request; scheme name and sub-pages ('Check if you qualify and apply', 'Household costs covered') confirmed from the site's own page titles

Scheme name from Birmingham’s own page↗. Not confirmed: the page did not load for our check on 10 September 2026, so nothing on it is quoted here. The government allocation is from Annex A of the Crisis and Resilience Fund grant determination 2026 to 2027↗.

Apply on Birmingham’s website

Applications are made on the council’s own site — this page collects nothing. If the link has moved, search the council site for “crisis and resilience”, then “household support”, then “welfare assistance”.

Open the Birmingham scheme page

Source: Birmingham City Council — Crisis and Resilience Fund 2026 to 2027. Opened 10 September 2026; page did not load, scheme name from the council’s page title.

Where this money comes from

Central government funds it; the council sets the rules. A payment does not affect your benefits. How the fund works nationally.

Other help you may qualify for

Eligibility checker — see what you could be entitled to.
White-goods grants — a broken fridge, cooker or washing machine.
Budgeting Advance or Budgeting Loan — interest-free from the DWP.
How much councils pay — the cheapest borrowing, capped at 3% a month.

Not in Birmingham?

See the other councils we have checked, or find yours via GOV.UK’s Get help with the cost of living from your local council↗.

Outside England the scheme has a different name: the Scottish Welfare Fund in Scotland, the Discretionary Assistance Fund in Wales, and Discretionary Support in Northern Ireland.

Recently checked elsewhere: Bradford, Eastleigh, Rochdale — see all 141.

Find your council by postcode

Not in Birmingham? Enter a postcode and we will point you at the right council’s Crisis and Resilience Fund page.

We look the postcode up with the free postcodes.io service to find your local authority. Nothing you type is stored.

This page is independent. It is not run by Birmingham City Council, the Department for Work and Pensions or GOV.UK. Council schemes change without notice; the council’s own page is always the current position.